The Feast by Antony Sher
Felix runs a large, run-down theatre in the heart of Africa. Returning home after a drying-out cure, he finds he is sober, but the world seems drunk. The dictator, Duma, has been deposed, and people are indulging their newfound freedom in every possible way. Master of ceremonies of the tiny expat community is Charlie, a handsome and wealthy doctor whose famous parties are modelled on ritual. As Felix sets out to help the actress-singer Kaz track down the killer of her son - a victim of Duma's regime - he travels through a feverish and mutable society where beauty and terror live side by side, where both man and beast are embarked on feeding frenzies of gratification, where the barriers between past and present keep shifting, and where, at any moment, the Great Dictator himself threatens to reappear. THE FEAST explores the conflict between appetite and imagination in the human spirit, viewed against an epic, surreal portrait of Africa, and of Theatre. Graphic, violent and funny it is a quite brilliant study of purity versus decadence.
'Sher's is an exuberant , exaggerated, colour-saturated flame tree of a novel' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'The Feast is a provocative, complex and audacious novel.' THE TIMES
Born in South Africa in 1949, Antony Sher has established himself as one of Britain's leading actors, as well as a successful writer and artist. Roles as Richard III, Shylock, Tamburlaine and Cyrano have won awards at the RSC, as did his Stanley Spencer at the National Theatre.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349112039 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349112037 |
| Title | The Feast |
| Author | Antony Sher |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1999-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 422 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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